I want to create a muzzle flash for this mech's cannon when it blows up this cookie.Anyone have any ideas? I've got some ideas I'm going to try but was curious what otherswould do. Thanks for any input.Here's a test vid of how it's going to go:

Here's what I ended up with. Lots of room for improvement.I ended up using a blast image on a plane with alpha and a bright light.For some reason after too much tweaking I can see the edges of the plane.Not sure what I did.Thanks to Tyson, I used a lot of the wall hit tutorial to make this.Also created all my own sound effects.A friend of mine said "Sound is 60% of what you see."